Mandiant Advantage Security Validation vs. Picus Security

Mandiant Advantage Security Validation, designed by Mandiant company, can automate a testing program to give us authetic and real world data on how our security controls are effectively working / performing. This solution provides trusted evidence on how well our security controls work against threats targeting our organization. This enables security teams to emulate real attack behaviors against security controls authentically throughout the attack lifecycle and the entire security stack.

Incentivized

If you want to analyze the full path focusing on the signatures it’s the best product in the market. If you want to test phishing, data exfiltration/DLP, DNS I don’t recommend Picus. Scenario based attacks also lacking. However Picus support is awesome and I like the development team. When we open a case, they’ll always return with the right answer

Incentivized

• Network visibility
• Scaling
• Threat Intel
• Monitoring

Incentivized

• It has thousands of signatures and up-to-date attack vectors (It's the largest set in the market)
• Attack vectors are mapped with existing vendors like Checkpoint and Mcafee, where you don't spend time finding out which cve mapped to which protection
• Ability to focus/highlght solely new threats, it's superb for 0days and up-to-date protections. As there are always timing issue between updates and apply the updates on the products.
• Blocked vs not blocked ratios on the dashboard with drill down menu specifiying the set of protections or signatures on the defensive measures
• Already mapped mitre att&ck framework on the dasboard. SOC and analyst team using the Mitre framework.
• Detection analytics enhance the analytics capabilities with pinpoint accuracy where to focus and how to prevent
• Timeline and scheduled reports from the dashboard in flexible format

Incentivized

• We had some software confliction issue during install.

Incentivized

• Visualization of network and the products
• Complex/Scenario based attacks
• Phishing tests
• DNS and Data exfiltration attacks
• Automatic action through the apis for the products on the path
• Strategical and tactical reports for Cisos
• Automatic SOAR entegration with already builtin playbooks

Incentivized

The Mandiant Threat Modeling Security Service evaluates our organization’s security controls and ethically uncovers attacker behaviors to reveal unknown risks and vulnerabilities within existing and proposed network and information systems including software applications, business processes and operational networks. Also, they helps in achieving our compliance objectives for internal and external regulations

Incentivized

Mandiant is focused on a clear view of the environment, vulnerabilities, and threats. Palo Alto is a great tool for some of this, but was not mature enough at the time of our initial eval. The new version of Palo Alto looks much more robust and capable and we will definitely re-evaluate it before renewal with Mandiant. If you already have Palo in your environment, it's an even more compelling case.

Incentivized

We use other vendors Verodin, AttackIQ, SafeBreach, Cymulate etc. All of them have their advantages and disadvantages. Please take a look at TrustRadius reviews of each product. I don’t want to go head to head for each product in this
review. I select Picus because it's local startup company in our region. I like their support and engineering team. Support is marvelous. Product is giving what we expected from the product. Price is adequate. Reporting and dashboard is superb.

Incentivized

• Helps achieving compliance objectives
• Increase in stakeholders trust on their personal data security
• Compliance with internal policies and external regulations
• Increase return on investment

Incentivized

• With Picus we have the tangible KPIs for the security
• Detetcion and Prevention rates for the latest attacks are significantly increased
• We work with many security vendors. We use picus scores and share specific outputs with the company in case of decreasing score rates where the development and product team analyzes their updates or product engines to increase the rates.
• It helps our strategic plans where to focus and invest for the following years and planning/prioritizing the security budgets to specific highlighted areas

Incentivized